I have been a Mass Effect fan since day 1 i touched the game (somewhere in 2007 i think). Loved the way our choices actually mattered. There were so many different ways to play out the game and i spent over 100 hours in mass effect 1.

This continued for me in Mass Effect 2, which featured a much improved combat system and also less grinding (I hate grinding). The choices you made influenced if people lived or died and also what happened in the end mattered.

Then Mass Effect 3 came. They kept most of the Combat system from me2 and added some options to further improve on it, adding more action to it mostly. They left the role playing intact if you wanted to still play like the old me1 and 2. I liked playing ME3, really did. Will probably play it again. But the ending … dear lord.

I played it through like this:

• Quarians & Geth living happily together on Rannok
• Krogan cured of genophage (mordin dead) and Solarians ticked off
• Had close to 6K Strength for fight when i started the london mission, only missed 1 or 2 quests because of bugs.
• All previous companions who could live still are alive
• Pure paragon, did not take any of the Renegade options

Then you arrive in Citadel, being half dead (why i cant use medi gel when i still had 6 is beyond me). Moving slow as hell, dont like those bits it serves no point, then you get to the central bit. You talk with the half husk the illusive man, ladieda.

Then the bit with the guardian boy comes. He gives you 3 choices:

1. Control the reapers, you die but the reapers will be gone forever (paragon choice)
2. Destroy the reapers but also the mass relays and all artificial life (renegade choice)
3. Merge with the reapers creating the perfect form of life (biowares perfect choice)

I dont like any of these, in all 3 choices whatever i did before me3 is not relevant anymore. I can take that Shep dies, no problemo. If atleast the rest of the universe continues and perhaps we get a glimpse into the future where the universe has recovered. Lets look at the choices more closely

1. Control the reapers, you die but the reapers will be gone forever (paragon choice), shep basicly becomes 1 with the reapers, controlling them for whatever purpose he sees fit. I call this a defeat of who shep is. He would be controlling the reapers but in my little mind this would mean he would slowly become a reaper himself. That could however lead to mass effect 4, where the universe is suddenly fighting shep.
2. Destroy the reapers but also the mass relays and all artificial life (renegade choice), right … so the geth die, meaning the work you did on rannok was useless. All relays blow up, meaning no more shiney space travel. The universe is set back thousands if not tends of thousands of years. Oh and shep is probably dead.
3. Merge with the reapers creating the perfect form of life (biowares perfect choice), the current bioorganisms and synthetics become 1, becoming the perfect form of life. Yeah … sure. The whole idea repulses me, and also everyone dies. Hell no that im letting ash & Liara die!!

Bioware fix this please, you have pissed off your fanbase who have loved and worshipped this game for many many years. I myself am still a big fan of the Mass Effect universe, but this feels like the game was rushed too much. Like EA had set some release date and you didnt have time to finish it properly. As fans and customers i think we deserve better then this S H I T ending.